We have covered most of the major pieces involved in creating a theme product. As we've seen, this can be a complex and delicate process at times, and there are a lot of moving parts involved.
This chapter will cover the steps and best practices involved in deploying your theme on a server as well as the process for releasing your theme "into the wild" for other people to enjoy and install on their Plone web sites.
We're not going to cover hosting here, as that falls under the sysadmin umbrella, but refer to http://www.plone.net, or #plone
, for ideas on hosting companies. We're also going to skip over some more system-administration-type tasks and focus instead on the theming aspect of taking a site live.
The typical process for creating a theme involves the following:
1. Create a Subversion repository to hold your theme product.
2. Create a theme product using the paster recipe.
3. Add the theme product to the repository...